Author | Zhidong Editorial Department
A high-level event to explore the future development trend of artificial intelligence will be held on Saturday.
From April 25th to 29th, the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference with the theme of "Innovation: Building a Better World" will be held in Beijing. During the period, the "Artificial Intelligence Theme Day", the first theme day event held at the annual meeting of the Forum, will be officially launched on April 27.
The Artificial Intelligence Theme Day, jointly organized by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park Management Committee and the People's Government of Haidian District, Beijing, is definitely a "heavyweight":
In terms of academic experts, there are more than 20 Chinese and foreign academicians, including 2 Turing Award winners, and the heads of 3 top domestic artificial intelligence research institutes; in terms of enterprise representatives, there are not only technical executives from top AI companies such as Microsoft, Baidu, and Ant Group, but also entrepreneurial representatives of embodied intelligent robot companies and R&D leaders of large factories.
The high standard of the guests, the forefront of agenda setting, and the blockbuster results of the release all make this theme day full of highlights:
1. Cutting-edge academic achievements: Top academic experts share the latest research progress
A number of Chinese and foreign academicians, Turing Award winners, and heads of top artificial intelligence research institutes will share the latest research progress around future frontier trends in artificial intelligence such as large models and embodied intelligence
He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a Fellow of the American Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a Fellow of the British Physical Society, a Chair Professor of Peking University, Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Analysis and Application Technology, Director of the International Machine Learning Research Center of Peking University, President of the Beijing Institute of Scientific Intelligence, and President of the Beijing Institute of Big Data. Academician E Weinan will deliver a keynote report on "A New Generation of AI and Scientific Applications" at the Artificial Intelligence Theme Day.
Dai Qionghai Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Dean of the School of Information of Tsinghua University, Director of the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Chairman of the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, the main academic direction is artificial intelligence (stereo vision) and computational photography, and has long been committed to theoretical and key technological innovation in this research field.
Zheng Zhiming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beihang University, and an expert in the interdisciplinary field of mathematics and information science, has long been engaged in the research of the intersection of mathematics and information such as aerospace information security and complex information systems. Academician Cheng Chi-ming will share the challenges and opportunities of privacy-preserving computing technology at the Artificial Intelligence Theme Day.
Zhang Ping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, President of Zhongguancun Pan-Liaison Institute, expert in wireless and mobile communications, professor and doctoral supervisor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, director of the State Key Laboratory of Network and Switching Technology, engaged in basic theory and technological innovation research on mobile communication transmission, networking, scientific instruments and other basic theories.
Shuguang Cui is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a global highly cited researcher, an IEEE Fellow, the chief scientist of the National Key R&D Program, the first batch of candidates for the Shenzhen Outstanding Talent Training Program, and a member of the Shenzhen Decision-making Advisory Committee.
He is a 2000 Turing Award winner, a 2021 Kyoto Prize winner, a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the American Academy of Liberal Sciences, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of Academia Sinica, a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, and a professor and president of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University.
Zhu Songchun is the dean of the Beijing Institute of General Artificial Intelligence, the dean of the School of Intelligence, the dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Peking University, and the deputy director of the Expert Committee of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. Zhu Songchun will deliver a keynote report on "Towards General Artificial Intelligence" at the Artificial Intelligence Theme Day.
Huang Tiejun, Chairman of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Deputy Dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Peking University, Professor of the School of Computer Science of Peking University, Deputy Director of the Expert Committee of Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, participated in the proposal, drafting and implementation of the new generation of artificial intelligence development plan in mainland China, deputy leader of the expert group of the "Science and Technology Innovation 2030" new generation of artificial intelligence major scientific and technological projects, deputy leader of the national artificial intelligence standardization overall group, and secretary-general of the new generation of artificial intelligence industry technology innovation strategic alliance.
Haitao Song, President and Chairman of the Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Deputy Secretary-General of the Global Academic Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Universities, Vice Chairman of the Asian Alliance for Sustainable Development of Science and Technology, AIDH Fellow, Expert of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Key R&D Program, Member of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Navigation Equipment, Member of the National Artificial Intelligence Standardization Group, Member of the General Artificial Intelligence Security Working Group, Co-Leader of the Humanoid Robot (Embodied Intelligence) Working Group of the National Beacon Committee, and Leading Scientist of Huawei Ascend AI.
Mark Nitzberg is Executive Director of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of Strategic Development at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, Director of Technology Research at BRIE, computer scientist, entrepreneur, and focuses on the impact of AI and related technologies on society, economy, and democracy.
Michael Spence 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Canadian-American Economist, William Berkeley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University's Stern School of Business, Philip Spence of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Philip Spence. Professor H. Knight and Dean Emeritus, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, with research interests focused on economic growth and development, dynamic competition, and information economics.
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2. Cutting-edge AI practices: The world's top companies share the latest AI achievements
As a leader in the field of commercialization, top experts and technology leaders from many of the world's top AI companies will share cutting-edge technology trends, deep industry insights and valuable practical experience.
Qi Zhang, Senior Vice President of Microsoft and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, will give a report entitled "Microsoft Copilot: A New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Co-pilot". Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer of Baidu, and He Zhengyu, Chief Technology Officer of Ant Group, will also share the theme.
Zhang Qi Senior Vice President, President of Microsoft AI Asia Pacific Microsoft made a major revision of the search engine Bing in February 2023 and launched the chatbot Copilot under the name of Bing Chat, announced in March that the new version of the Bing search engine will run OpenAI GPT-4, and then began to unify the Copilot brand in various products and services, and announced the integration of Copilot into Windows in May 11, January 2024, it was announced that it would provide a dedicated Copilot key for Windows keyboards. In January 2024, Microsoft became the publicly traded company by market capitalization.
Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer, Baidu Baidu is one of the few artificial intelligence companies in China that has a full-stack layout, and has continuously iteratively upgraded the Wenxin large model since the release of the knowledge-enhanced large language model Wenxin Yiyan in 2023. So far, Wenxin Yiyan has reached 200 million users, with an average daily call volume of 200 million, and the PaddlePaddle Wenxin ecosystem has gathered 12.95 million developers, served 244,000 enterprises and institutions, and created 895,000 models based on PaddlePaddle and Wenxin.
He Zhengyu CTO of Ant Group Since 2015, Ant Group has actively invested in the research of trusted AI technology and has established a comprehensive security governance system for large models, opened the industry's first integrated security solution for large models in 2023, released the financial model and announced the full-stack layout of large models in September, open-sourced ATorch and Lookahead, a distributed training acceleration extension library for large models and Lookahead in January 2024, and participated in the compilation of the "Security Testing Methods for Large Language Models" and participated in the development of the "Generative AI Application Security Testing Standards".
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3. Cutting-edge AI direction: domestic embodied intelligence core players gathered
Embodied intelligence, with physical and environmental interaction as the core, is becoming a key direction in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, and a wave of research and development and entrepreneurship of embodied intelligent humanoid robots has also been set off in China.
Five founders of domestic embodied intelligence core startups and leaders of Xiaomi's robotics team will discuss the technology, industrial opportunities and challenges of embodied intelligence on the same stage at the Artificial Intelligence Theme Day.
Chen Jianyu Founder of Xingdong Era Founded in August 2023 and headquartered in Beijing, it is incubated by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Institute of Qizhi, and its flagship humanoid robot product "Xiaoxing" has undergone five rounds of iterations, and the second-generation full-scale humanoid robot of Xiaoxing Max will also be released;
Gu Jie, founder and CEO of Fourier IntelligenceFounded in 2015 and headquartered in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, Fourier Intelligence is a general robot platform enterprise that released its first general bipedal robot product, GR-1, in July 2023.
Li Hang ACM Fellow, ACL Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, CCF Distinguished Member, has worked in NEC Central Research Institute, Microsoft Asian Research Institute, and Huawei Noah's Ark Laboratory, and his main research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, and data mining.
Song Haitao Co-founder of Zhiyuan Robotics and President of Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence Founded in February 2023 and headquartered in Shanghai, Zhiyuan Robotics (Agibot) is committed to the integration and innovation of AI+ robots, and the founding team includes a number of industry veterans including "Zhihuijun" Peng Zhihui, who has completed 5 rounds of financing and has become an embodied intelligent unicorn enterprise, and will release the embodied intelligent robot expedition A1 in August 2023.
Founded in May 2023 and headquartered in Beijing, Galaxy General Robotics focuses on the design, R&D and manufacturing of multimodal general robots, and completed 100 million yuan angel + round of financing in November 2023, led by Meituan Strategy, followed by Peking University Yanyuan Venture Capital, Tsinghua SEE Fund, and IDG Capital.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Hangzhou, Unitree Technology is a world-renowned high-performance quadruped robot company, which released its first general-purpose humanoid robot Unitree H1 in August 2023, and completed nearly 1 billion yuan of B2 round financing with Meituan and other participation before the Spring Festival in 2024.
Many Xiaomi robot team leaders Xiaomi announced the establishment of a robotics research laboratory in August 2021 and released its first product, the bionic quadruped robot Cyberdog (Iron Egg), the bionic humanoid robot Cyberone (Iron Egg) in August 2022, and the second-generation quadruped robot CyberDog 2 in August 2023.
4. Cutting-edge AI policy: Publish a leading embodied intelligence policy
Including the Embodied Intelligence Policy, a number of blockbuster policies, collaborations, alliances, programs, and reports will be released during the AI Theme Day.
Policies: Beijing Artificial Intelligence Policy, Beijing Embodied Intelligence Policy.
Alliance: Zhongguancun Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, Synaesthesia Computing Intelligence Integration Industry Alliance.
Plan: General Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Ecology Plan.
Report: Beijing Industry Large Model Innovation and Application Competition Award and Industry Application Report, White Paper on Responsible Open Source of Basic Models.
Cooperation: Peking University signed a cooperation agreement with the People's Government of Haidian District, Beijing.
Fifth, there are many achievements
There are also a number of important results that will be released during the Artificial Intelligence Theme Day.
New achievements: major achievements of national artificial intelligence of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing Innovation Achievement Matrix, 6G R&D achievements, cutting-edge achievements in the field of medical artificial intelligence, scientific data to draw a panorama of artificial intelligence medical devices.
New model: FLM-2, the world's first low-carbon, high-performance, low-illusion open-source multilingual large model.
New Concept: Artificial Intelligence Innovation Block Concept.
New platforms: Artificial intelligence data operation platform, general artificial intelligence large-task simulation platform "Tongjie", general artificial intelligence rating standard and test platform "Tongzhi Test", general artificial intelligence scientific research platform "Tongjing", and general intelligent human "Tongtong".
Sixth, the full agenda
The "1+4+7" architecture will be set up on the Artificial Intelligence Theme Day, and 1 theme forum, 4 special forums and 7 special forums will be hosted around cutting-edge topics such as large models, embodied intelligence, and trusted AI.
The main forum is the Future Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Forum, which will be held on the morning of April 27, with the theme of "Technology Leading, Industrial Innovation: Exploring New Trends in the Development of Future Artificial Intelligence", focusing on the innovation of key technologies and applications of a new generation of artificial intelligence such as "language model", "multimodal model" and "embodied intelligence".
Four thematic forums focused on four themes: "General Artificial Intelligence", "Blockchain and Privacy Computing", "6G" and "Medical AI".
The General Artificial Intelligence Forum and the 6G Innovation and Development Forum will be held on the morning of April 27, and the Blockchain and Privacy Computing Forum and the Medical AI Industry Integration and Development Forum will be held on the afternoon of April 27.
The General Artificial Intelligence Forum will focus on hot topics such as general artificial intelligence technology innovation, security governance and challenges, and industrial application landing, gather 8 top Chinese and foreign scholars to conduct keynote reports and roundtable dialogues, and release the general artificial intelligence large-task simulation platform "Tongjie", the rating standard and test platform "Tongzhi Test", the scientific research platform "Tongjing" and the general intelligent human "Tongtong". The signing ceremony of the cooperation between Peking University and the People's Government of Haidian District, Beijing, as well as the white paper "Responsible Open Source of Basic Models" and the General Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Ecology Plan, will be held during the forum.
With the theme of "Jointly Promoting the Integration of Communication and AI and Leading 6G Technology Innovation", the 6G Innovation and Development Forum will bring together 6 Chinese and foreign academicians, leaders of scientific research institutes, and representatives of well-known enterprises to give keynote speeches on hot issues such as "6G Basic Theory and Cutting-edge Technology", "Technical Path of 6G and AI Integration" and "Application Prospects of 6G and AI Integration", and conduct in-depth exchanges on the effective path of 6G and AI integration, and hold the establishment ceremony of the Synaesthesia Computing and Intelligence Integration Industry Alliance and release 6G R&D results.
The Blockchain and Privacy Computing Forum will focus on how to deeply integrate blockchain and privacy computing technology to build an efficient and secure data element market system and empower the healthy and rapid development of the digital economy. Zheng Zhiming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Steve Hoffman, a well-known investor in Silicon Valley, will lead a number of industry experts, leading enterprises and policymakers to analyze cutting-edge trends, share practical cases, and explore solutions, with a view to promoting the prosperity and sustainable development of the data element market.
The Medical AI Industry Integration and Development Conference is organized by the Medical Artificial Intelligence Branch of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, which will bring together top experts and industry elites in the field, covering the release of results, keynote speeches and other links, focusing on the medical and health undertakings, the construction of smart surgical platforms, medical big data management and other fields, discussing the latest application innovation practices, releasing the "Achievements in the Frontier Field of Medical AI" and the panorama of AI medical devices, and comprehensively promoting the integrated development of "AI + medical".
The seven featured forums will focus on seven themes: "World Digital Health", "Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation and Development", "Qiaohai Innovation and Development", "Financial Technology Parallel", "Data Security Governance and Development", "Aerospace Information Industry Innovation and Development", and "Global Science and Technology Cluster Innovation".